Organization

Stage director

Adam Cooper

Lighting designer

Michael Heidinger

Costume designer

Alfred Mayerhofer

Set designer

Rainer Sinell

Video designer

Raphael Kurig

Thomas Mahnecke

Choreographer

Chorus master

Felix Meybier

Singer

Tenor

Maximilian Mayer

Candide

Soprano

Andreja Zidaric

Cunegonde

Ilia Staple

Baritone

Alexander Franzen

Dr Pangloss

Contralto

Florine Schnitzel

Paquette

Anna Agathonos

Old Woman

Martin

Spoken

Cacambo

Conductor

Andreas Kowalewitz

Anthony Bramall

Andreas Partilla

Dramaturge

András Borbély T

Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

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Chor des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

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Orchester des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

German

Munich

Germany

Gärtnerplatztheater

Candide Bernstein

Public

English

Approved

CANDIDE PREMIERE 17.12.2015 REITHALLEMusik von Leonard BernsteinBuch von Hugh WheelerGesangstexte von Richard Wilbur mit zusätzlichen Gesangstexten von Steph...

The young Candide grew up with Cunegonde and Maximilian, the two teenage children of his uncle, Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, in a sheltered place at his castle in Westphalia. From their common tutor, the philosopher Dr. Pangloss, the three, along with the maid Paquette, are taught to believe they live in the "best of all possible worlds." Finally cast out by his family and forced to venture out into the wide world, Candide embarks on a journey that will see him fall victim to natural disasters, witness political and religious strife, abuse, betrayal, and terminal illnesses—but none of that can dissuade him from clinging to his unshakable optimism about the "best of all worlds."

Leonard Bernstein took the philosophical-satirical novel »Candide oder der Optimismus« by the French Enlightener Voltaire from 1759 as a template for his »Comic Operetta« in two acts, which was first performed on December 1, 1956 on New York's Broadway. As a result, the composer revised his work several times with the help of various authors. Inspired by Voltaire's biting, socially critical irony, Bernstein created music for what is probably his best-known stage work alongside »West Side Story«, which, in its captivating mixture of operetta, musical and revue, is at the same time – as the composer himself once put it – a »declaration of love to the European music« that quotes European dance forms such as gavotte, mazurka or polka as well as traditions of Italian bel canto opera.

Candide by Bernstein, From (2022/2022), Directed by Adam Cooper,, Conductor Andreas Kowalewitz, Anthony Bramall, Andreas Partilla, Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich, Germany

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